The First American Colonies

What is a colony?

When was the "Colonial Period"?
1607-1754
Why did the Europeans estanlish colonies in North America?
Religious and Economic reasons.
Roanoke Island
Reason it was established:
Money,Exporation(very risky),and Gold digging.
Economic venture(to make money for England)
Mystery of Roanoke Island(the lost colony)
Island off North Carolina
1578
Sir Walter Raleigh
1590 no trace found(still a mystery)
118 people vanished
One clue found"Croatoan"
Jamestown
Reason it was established:
1607(401 years ago)
First permanent English Settlement in Norh America(located in Virginia)
Economic venture
Virginia Company
Plymouth
Mayflower:102 Passengers
Pilgrims
America's first permanent seprtist settlement
1620
Reasons it was established:
Sepratists form the church of England
The second English colony
To avoid religiouse pursecution
Massachusetts
1630
About 1,000 puritan refugees from England
Massachusetts
Reason it was established:
Puritans
To avoid religious pusecution
Pennsylvania(Penn's Woods)
Quakers
Could not worship in England because they did not follow the Church of England
1682
Reasons it was estabished:
Quakers wanted freedom to practice their faith
William Penn was from England
Georgia
Settled by people from debtor's prisons in England
James Oglethorpe,a prison reformer from England
Reason it was established:
Debtor's prison was crowded
1762(last of the 13 colonies)
Settlers hoped to experience a new life in the colony
They wanted economic freedom